From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 29, 1987:

• With only a day’s rest since a western Kansas blizzard had subsided, a new winter storm was sweeping into the state. Western and northern Kansas were expected to receive up to 10 inches of new snow. Interstate 70 had been closed from WaKeeney to the Colorado border, and helicopters were airlifting tons of hay to stranded cattle in Gove, Trego, and Graham counties. Flash-flood conditions were prevailing in south-central Kansas. The Lawrence area was experiencing fairly heavy rainfall, with a strong chance of the precipitation turning to snow tonight.
• Lawrence High School student Alexis Powell recently had won the senior division of the Douglas County Science Fair with a project on the “effects of temperature on oxygen consumption of crickets.” Also placing in the senior division were Joel Rush and Lynnette Valencia.
• In Topeka, the Kansas House had given first-round approval to a bill that would require people seeking marriage licenses in the state to undergo blood tests for the AIDS virus. Kansas had previously required people applying for marriage licenses to undergo blood tests to detect the presence of syphilis, but this requirement had ended in 1981.